copper-plates. The
Second Edition Corrected. [-Vol. II. Adorn’d with forty-six copper-plates.]
London: printed for
W. Innys,
T. Longman and
T. Shewell, and
C. Hitch, and
M. Senex,
m.dcc.xlv,
m.dcc.xliv.
[1745, 1744.]
QC19 .D5 1745
2 vol. 4to. 244 and 296 leaves, publishers’ advertisements on the last page of both volumes, folded engraved plates; list
of subscribers’ names in the second volume. The titles of the two volumes vary; the second volume has an engraved vignette,
the words “The
second edition corrected” are omitted, and the dedication is to Frederick, Prince of Wales, &c. formerly of Hart-Hall (now Hertford-College)
in Oxford.
Not in Lowndes.
Lalande, page 424.
See Sotheran, 1018.
Jefferson cited this volume in his letter to Isaac McPherson, previously quoted, dated from Monticello, August 13, 1813. In
his discussion of the elevators invented by Oliver Evans, referring first to the plate in Wolf’s
Cours de Mathématiques
(q.v.), he wrote: “
. . . it is a nearly exact representation of Evans’s elevators. but a more exact one is to be seen in Desagulier’s Experim
l. Philosophy II. Plate 34 . . .
”
John Theophilus Desaguliers, 1683-1744, natural philosopher, was born in France, but came to England at the age of two years with his father after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Desaguliers matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, and eventually succeeded John Keill,
q.v., as lecturer in experimental philosophy at Hart Hall. He became a friend of Sir Isaac Newton and was elected a fellow
of the Royal Society, winning the Copley gold medal in 1742. The first volume of
A Course of Experimental Philosophy was originally issued in 1734. This is the
first edition of the second volume, which was not reissued in 1745 with Volume I. The list of subscribers has no names of peculiar
American interest with the possible exception of Sir Fulwar Skipwith, the father of Jefferson’s friend Fulwar Skipwith. The
late Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. is in the list, as is Martin Folkes, President of the Royal Society, and two dramatists, Sir John
Vanbrugh (who was dead when the book was published) and Colley Cibber.
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Bailey’s Machines.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 30, as above.
BAILEY,
William.
The Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; or, Descriptions of the useful Machines and Models contained in the Repository
of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce: Illustrated by designs on fifty-five copper-plates;
with an account of the several Discoveries and Improvements promoted by the Society, in agriculture, manufactures, mechanics,
chemistry and the polite arts, and also in the British colonies in America. [-Vol. II. Carefully corrected and revised by Alexander Mabyn Bailey.]
London: printed by
W. Adlaw, and sold by the author,
1772.
First Edition. 4to and a Folio Atlas of Plates with 55 folded plates, numbered, mostly signed by A. M. Bailey. No copy was seen for collation.
Lowndes II, 99.
Graesse I, 276.
Sotheran 226.
A second volume was issued in 1779. The machines described and illustrated include Hydraulic Machines by Wirtz and Merryman,
a Machine for Ventilating Mines by Keane Fitzgerald, Pinchbeck’s Crane, and others.
William Bailey was Register to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, founded in London in 1753 by William
Shipley, the landscape painter. This Society paid attention to the application of science to practical purposes (in which
Jefferson was deeply interested), a subject usually ignored by the Royal Society.
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